Amikam

Amikam
עַמִּיקָם
Hebrew transcription(s)
 • official Ammiqam
Amikam
Coordinates: 32°33′49.31″N 35°1′14.51″E / 32.5636972°N 35.0206972°ECoordinates: 32°33′49.31″N 35°1′14.51″E / 32.5636972°N 35.0206972°E
Council Alona
Region Haifa District
Affiliation Mishkei Herut Beitar
Founded 1950
Founded by [Immigrants from China]
Population (2011) 675[1]

Amikam (Hebrew: עַמִּיקָם) is a moshav in northern Israel. Located near Zikhron Ya'akov, it falls under the jurisdiction of Alona Regional Council, whose headquarters are located in the moshav. In 2011 it had a population of 675.[1] West of the moshav is the Alona Park.[2]

The moshav was established in 1950 by Jewish refugees from Harbin, Manchuria and Shanghai, China, who had fled the Chinese Civil War.[2] They were later joined by Jews from the Cyprus concentration camps, and followed by Yemenite Jews. In 1956, a group of Polish Jewish immigrants settled on the moshav. Some of the families engage in fruit farming, raising peaches, plums, nectarines and loquats. Children attend the local Tali Alona elementary school.[3]

The land of Amikam belonged to the depopulated Palestinian village of Sabbarin.[4]

Notable residents

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 "Locality File" (XLS). Israel Central Bureau of Statistics. 2011. Retrieved February 2, 2013.
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 Mapa's concise gazetteer of Israel (in Hebrew). Yuval El'azari (ed.). Tel-Aviv: Mapa Publishing. 2005. pp. 426–427. ISBN 965-7184-34-7.
  3. ↑ Alona region
  4. ↑ Khalidi, Walid (1992). All That Remains: The Palestinian Villages Occupied and Depopulated by Israel in 1948, Washington D.C.: Institute for Palestine Studies. p. 187

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